Woods Library Building - Bradford VT
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PeterNoG
N 43° 59.576 W 072° 07.719
18T E 730238 N 4875096
This Victorian Building is the Wood Library Building on South Main Street just south of US Hwy 5 in Bradford, Vermont.
Waymark Code: WMKP2H
Location: Vermont, United States
Date Posted: 05/09/2014
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The historic library was designed by Lambert Packard of St Johnsbury, Vermont, in his adaptation of the Richardsonian Romanesque style and it was built in 1894-95. Due to the slope of the land, from the front, South Main Street, it's 1-1/2 stories but 2-1/2 stories at the back, US Hwy 5.
It is a NRHP Contributing Building for the Bradford Village Historic District and the following is from the NRHP narrative (
visit link) :
Woods Library Building (South Main Street): 1894-95, Richardsonian Romanesque, 1-1/2 stories on West, 2-1/2 stories on East, brick (rusticated stone sills, water table, foundation), hip roof with transverse gables on West and East, corbeled denticulated cornice, 1-story circular tourelles with conical peaks at Southwest and Southeast corners, 2-story octagonal belcast tower with peak on West, polygonal North apse capped by polygonal peak roof with gable dormers, main (west) entrance recessed behind round arch, hooded round arch windows, polychrome foliated terra cotta ornament.
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